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Leo Tolstoy Quotes: If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.
         

If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.


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Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.



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An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.



Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.



Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

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